ABC Suggests Utah Primary a Sign GOP ‘Still Very Much in Trouble’

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 22, 2018
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For months, the liberal media soothsayers have claimed to be reading the bones and insist they see a “blue wave” coming to wipe out the Republican Party. Their hysteria went to a new level during Sunday’s Good Morning America when the folks at ABC tried to argue that since former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney didn’t win the Utah GOP nomination for Senate via the caucus and had to face a primary, it meant the whole GOP was doomed in the November midterms.

George, there was another political headline overnight that we want to get your take on it,” fill-in anchor Tom Llamas noted towards the end of their politics segment. “Mitt Romney trying to get the nomination for the Senate there as a Republican. And he lost. There were some local issues. He didn't get the nomination outright. He's going to have to go to a primary.

Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos suggested that the “local issue” that kept Romney from winning the caucus was that “they say he didn't raise his family in Utah.” “He doesn't live there, yeah,” Paula Faris chimed in. Hopefully, that was a slip of the tongue, because if it wasn’t, it means Faris doesn’t know what on Earth she’s talking about. As the Washington Post reported, Romney moved there back in 2015.

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